CA Newsom’s Health Secretary: Outdoor Dining Ban Is Tactic To ‘Keep People At Home’

California’s Health Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly talked about the outdoor dining lockdown rules and it being used as a way to keep people home.

Ghaly said, “Turning to restaurants to deliver and provide takeout options instead really has to do with the goal of trying to keep people at home. Not a comment on the relative safety of outdoor dining.”

Ghaly further discussed how they’ve worked with the restaurant industry in, “keeping tables farther apart, to ensuring masking happens as much as possible, to create opportunities for air circulation.”

He recognized how “all of those factors make outdoor dining lower risk.”

Ghaly continued, “We advise against anything that you can do in another way, in a lower risk way, that avoids you either leaving your home, or only leaving your home in a way that doesn’t expose you and cause you to mix with others.”